1/48 Hasegawa F/A-18C VFA-192 Golden Dragons

I have another hornet build right here. This time its The World Famous Golden Dragons VFA-192. I have the 1/48 Hasegawa F/A-18C painted with gunze acrylics with Alclad for exhaust. Decals were from Twobobs and hasegawa kit cartograf decals. Eduard pe for some cockpit items. MER from eduard resin.

They became “World Famous” when The Bridges At Toko-ri came out, since it happened when the film crew came out to the Oriskany in Japan for on-location shooting, VF-192 was the Panther squadron aboard. VF-5, which did all the flying scenes down in San Diego had to paint their airplanes in VF-192 markings (which they really really hated doing).

After making some new forward numbers off of a Cougar sheet from Furball to replace the ones I botched, my Toko-Ri Panther is almost done. Really liking the colors on the Hornet. The full color U.S. insignia also much better than the standard drab grey. The only thing that would make this look better is to be on the two tone grey/white camo in these colors but I think the Hornet might be too new to have ever been painted that way. Excellent job on this!

Eric….try Imgur (it’s what I switched to)….it’s free and no more difficult than Photobucket is/was. If you wish, I can offer a brief tutorial – just email me at: [email protected]
Now…on to your [now visible] posting. I can tell you it was worth the short wait to savor the pics of that stunning Hornet. Outstanding work, my friend. I like this even more than your first one.

You asked us to say what we thought, I think it’s great! The colour scheme really suits it. Re uploading your pictures, keep it simple, just upload them off your computer straight onto iModeler, it’s so easy even I can do it!

Outstanding work, Eric! I noticed that you’re kind of new here. Welcome! With submissions like this Hornet & the VFA-151 Hornet you already posted, you’ll fit right in! (I determined all this when I visited your page to send a friend request. LoL!)